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First of all, thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers; they are truly appreciated. Papa sends his thanks too!

I’ve returned from London and can report the following:

• Papa’s surgery is completed. They operated for 3 hours. Dr. Izawa said it went
  well;
• the team do not think the cancer spread past his prostrate;
  though they removed the lymph nodes as well (these have gone to pathology and
  we’ll have final results on that in two weeks time);
• because Papa is a
  runner, he has enlarged blood veins (which is good and healthy in a man his age)
  but they required overstitching (which was challenging and not so good); and
  
• they were able to spare one bunch of nerves on one side of the prostrate (which
  is good news re: post-prostrate surgery sexual function and incontinence issues) but not the second bunch on the side of the prostrate that was heavily
  damaged by cancer.

So, all-in-all, we’re quite happy … pending the final pathology report in two weeks time.

Papa was released – astonishingly – on Saturday afternoon, two days after major surgery! He looks great and claims to have little pain. It was a great Mother’s Day present for my mom for sure!

Sunday’s movie: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Nephew E and I went to see this cute film on Saturday afternoon. It was silly but fun and he really enjoyed it.
 
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see a lot of my niece P. At age twelve, P’s been attending the London School for the Performing Arts for 4 years now and was busy rehearsing for a tour she’s heading out on – to Boston – next week. She did manage to corner me at the hospital on Saturday and has convinced me to pick up the paint brush again and do a painting for her bedroom, which she is re-decorating to be more ‘funky’. She wants a smaller version of “Coming Thru White” (the painting G and I did in the livingroom). So, once back from out west, I shall get on that for you P. Promise.